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Parade of Senses has begun, and you’ve become an unwilling participant. Make the most of it! Explore the Conscious Space, help the other poor souls trapped here, seek answers, betray, kill... or show mercy and protect.

Why similar: Alternate History 18.4%, Nonlinear 17.8%, Lovecraftian 17.3%, Psychedelic 13.4%, Psychological Horror 9.9%

The narrative is the puzzle itself. You have no power, no resources, but a cryptic force sends you to face the impossible, where you have to see through your opponents lies before they see through yours, be they human or not.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.4%, Investigation 17.3%, Psychological 14.2%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Thriller 12.3%

Become Shepherd, an inquisitor sent to a suspicious village. Unveil the secrets of a world filled with fear, and make an inevitable choice. In this visual novel mystery, your decisions change the world. Can you survive the desperate horror?

Why similar: Lovecraftian 26%, Text-Based 13.7%, Investigation 13.6%, Thriller 12.4%, Psychological Horror 10.7%

The year is 2170. An anomaly has ripped through the AIO Station, leaving a lone technician fighting to survive. As the silence of deep space closes in, biblical angels descend, beginning trials of morality, judgment, and the price of human ambition.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.1%, Philosophical 18.2%, Psychological 15.3%, Thriller 12.8%, Psychological Horror 9.9%

Cycle of Struggle: Ardengrad is a visual novel about politics, love, and the cost of historical choices in an alternate world. You are a student drawn into events that will soon erupt into civil war. Here, ideologies are not just words—they define people’s fates. Every decision leaves a mark.

Why similar: Politics 32.5% ★, Alternate History 21.7%, Thriller 16.2%, Nonlinear 11.3%, Psychological Horror 9.1%

A hitchhiking journey through empty roads where every car could be your salvation… or your end. Walk through desolate places and encounter bizarre strangers along the way. Talk, decide, and survive unpredictable encounters as rumors of a roadside killer spread. While travelling towards the unknown.

Why similar: Psychedelic 19.2%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Thriller 14%, Horror 12.4%, Psychological 12.3%

Agent of Strange is a dark role-playing thriller where every mission is a labyrinth of choices and possibilities. You play as a Conspirator who infiltrates a sealed city ruled by the monstrous Family. Overthrow the regime, uncover occult secrets, and shape the City's fate.

Why similar: CRPG 19.4%, Character Customization 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Lovecraftian 10%

A disturbing psychological horror experience that unfolds as only the echo of your footsteps accompanies you through the dark corridors, where you move along the fragile edges of your own perception.

Why similar: Psychedelic 21.7%, Thriller 19.3%, Psychological 17.2%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Horror 9.7%

Sound is your only hope for survival in this first-person psychological horror game. Investigate the mysteries of an apartment block in 1960s America terrorized by a cosmic horror, as you try to save your lost mentor… and yourself.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.8%, Investigation 15.9%, Alternate History 14.4%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Thriller 11%

Narrative RPG, inspired by works of H.P. Lovecraft, celtic myths, rapiers and gunpowder. World awaits the Arrival of unknown creatures. It needs a hero who would stop the menace. Or not... He may even join them. Only you shall decide who would Morar become.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.4%, Nonlinear 18.4%, Text-Based 14.9%, CRPG 12.4%, Psychological 10.4%

Family curse is a mystical horror from the first person with a frightening atmosphere. Immerse yourself in the intricate history of the Crouse family and find out the terrible secret of the people who died in the cursed house.

Why similar: Alternate History 17.6%, Lovecraftian 15.7%, Thriller 15.1%, Psychedelic 11.6%, Psychological Horror 10.2%

A psychological interactive novel about a floppy disk with a mysterious program. Help Elliot cope with his mental issues and uncover the secret of the floppy disk.

Why similar: Philosophical 20.2%, Psychedelic 20%, Psychological 16.5%, Text-Based 15%, Psychological Horror 11%

ABIDE is a psychological first person horror game using prosthetic gore effects, stop motion and dolls scanned into 3D models. A peaceful retreat where people go to get better. A place for people to air their demons.

Why similar: Psychedelic 17.3%, Philosophical 15.6%, Psychological 13%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Investigation 11.8%

Embrace the human condition in this creepy RPG game. Sink in an abyss of loneliness, pain and anguish: will you forge your path out?

Why similar: Philosophical 23.1%, Lovecraftian 19.8%, Psychedelic 17.5%, Thriller 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11.3%

A group of university students is going to spend a week in the old hotel "Amnea". Within these seven days they have to find out what is hidden behind its facade and to unravel all the mysteries without losing their minds.

Why similar: Thriller 19.4%, Nonlinear 19.2%, Text-Based 13.2%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, CRPG 11.9%

A dark sci-fi survival horror visual novel where you make deadly choices to uncover the truth of live experiments in a sealed facility. It features choice-driven narrative, multiple endings, and light puzzles, with a focus on branching story rather than high-end graphics.

Why similar: Psychological 17.4%, Thriller 14.7%, Nonlinear 11.5%, CRPG 11.1%, Text-Based 10.9%

An interactive horror story based on a reality everyone eventually faces. Make choices to confront someone trying to enter your home - and uncover who they are.

Why similar: Philosophical 24.2%, Psychological 17%, Thriller 14.9%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Text-Based 10.2%

You are a priest who has gone into the dark forest for a final battle against evil.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 25%, Philosophical 22.7%, CRPG 18.5%, Psychological 14.8%, Psychological Horror 11.6%

PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR // ANTI-DATING SIM about learning to say NO.

Why similar: Psychological 18.6%, Investigation 16.3%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Horror 11.5%

"Embrace of the Downpour" is a psychological horror experience set in a lonely apartment, where you face an unexpected series of events. Can you handle the unfolding madness?

Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.3%, Thriller 20.9%, Investigation 20.7%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Horror 10.3%

Explore the mythical ancient ruins beneath the island of Minos. Piece together what happened to you and your team. Beware the spirits and beasts that lurk below! A single-player, first-person, horror game inspired by Penumbra and Amnesia.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 27.5%, Psychedelic 18.8%, Investigation 15.4%, Thriller 12.1%, Psychological Horror 9.6%

A cursed legacy awakens something ancient, revealing a terrifying reality never meant for human eyes. Follow your missing uncle’s trail, uncover forbidden secrets, and face a Lovecraftian cosmic horror in this first‑person adventure.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 31.4%, Investigation 17.5%, Psychological 10.3%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Horror 9.3%

Screaming In The Basement is an inspired-by P.T. psychological horror game with an immersive atmosphere. You play as Mike, a fearless journalist determined to expose the truth, as he investigates a family brutally killed by a serial killer.

Why similar: Psychedelic 17.1%, Thriller 17%, Psychological 15.7%, Investigation 15.6%, Psychological Horror 12.3%

The Vanished Soul is a solo-developed, first-person psychological horror set in 2016 in the fictional city of Novazenica. Explore a hauntingly realistic world, solve puzzles, make choices that matter, and face randomized scares in every playthrough.

Why similar: Nonlinear 19.8%, Psychological 18.8%, Thriller 11.7%, Investigation 10.4%, Horror 10%

In an age of chaos, the common people struggle to survive. Experience how Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei rose from nothing before their fame, gathering the desperate and homeless. Secure food, aid, and make choices. How many will live depends on you?

Why similar: Politics 27.3% ★, CRPG 20.4%, Alternate History 17.4%, Philosophical 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.3%

In 1960s USA, Jane Ferguson, a New York restaurant owner, receives an information on her CIA agent husband Mark, who had vanished mysteriously during a Tibet mission. To uncover his hidden secrets, she follows his trail, delving into the enigma of his disappearance.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.5%, Psychedelic 20.8%, Nonlinear 12.8%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Horror 9.4%

A Lovecraftian RPG with tactical card-based combat. Uncover dark secrets, face cult and eldritch horrors. Every choice shapes the battle—outplay your enemies or lose yourself to madness.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 30.5%, CRPG 19.6%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Horror 8.7%, Choices Matter 8.6%

The prologue to Agent of Strange — a dark role-playing thriller where every mission is a labyrinth of choices and possibilities. Start your path as a Conspirator in a desperate struggle against the secret occult regime.

Why similar: Psychological 17.6%, CRPG 16.3%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Character Customization 11.3%, Horror 10.5%

A baby fell. You jumped after it. God didn't like that. DeadWeight: A Lullaby is a psychological narrative experience about guilt, judgment, and the weight of human intent.

Why similar: Psychedelic 22.3%, Philosophical 21.6%, Psychological 20.4%, Thriller 13.7%, Choices Matter 9.3%

Delve into a role-playing game of horror, loss and madness set in the strange worlds of HP Lovecraft. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones offers a mix of rich role-playing and turn-based tactical combat, represented in an illustrative visual style. Can you find salvation in a dead world?

Why similar: Lovecraftian 42.5%, RPG 13.1%, Philosophical 11.1%, Horror 10.1%, CRPG 10%

Play a story-driven third-person psychological thriller set in a sinister early-20th-century asylum where reality bends under the weight of forgotten horrors. Phantom Lamb blends tense stealth gameplay with an immersive narrative of haunting secrets and psychological dread.

Why similar: Psychological 24%, Thriller 22.3%, Psychedelic 15.5%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Horror 9.7%

USSR, 1952. A psychological thriller visual novel about the still-unsolved Case No. 17, inspired by real events. Search for the murderer inside a Soviet psychiatric hospital, make choices with irreversible consequences — and don’t trust the past. Don’t trust anyone. Not even yourself.

Why similar: Thriller 18.3%, Nonlinear 17%, Investigation 16.4%, Text-Based 13.3%, Psychological Horror 12.6%

Dive into a realm where time twists and shadows whisper secrets. Solve enigmatic puzzles, unearth Luca's past, and confront your deepest fears. Engage vocally to shape your destiny. Stay in the light, stay quiet, and survive the relentless pursuit of the Time Man.

Why similar: Thriller 19.8%, Psychological 19.7%, Alternate History 18.6%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Horror 9.3%

A psychological horror where your mind is your worst enemy and reality can’t be trusted. Focus or Doubt what you see, reshape the truth, and decide what’s real before your sanity collapses.

Why similar: Psychological 18.2%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Nonlinear 15.1%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Horror 10%

A meta-horror adventure where you play as Nick, trapped in an abandoned mansion that slowly breaks its own rules.

Why similar: CRPG 23.4%, Thriller 19.2%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Psychedelic 13.8%, Horror 9.8%

Experience a fascinating journey through a world saturated with eroticism, where wild nature and the human kind are intertwined with the remnants of the giant God of Pleasure – lauv'abrarc.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.4%, Philosophical 17.8%, Psychedelic 17.3%, Psychological Horror 13%, Horror 9.7%

A first-person psychological horror focused on atmosphere, exploration, and a slow descent into mystery. You wake up on a remote island with no memory and no answers — who you are or how you got there. But with every answer you find, more questions begin to surface

Why similar: Psychological 21.3%, Psychedelic 17.1%, Investigation 14.5%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Thriller 13.1%

A Black Pyramid materializes across the globe. Dr. Mehdi Algun must decipher why, before its hunger for death and suffering consumes everything. An ancient cycle of cleansing has begun. As madness spreads and humanity tears itself apart, choose: become the destroyer, or join the cleansed.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 34.2%, Psychological 14.2%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Investigation 8.5%

Shadows over Loathing — a slapstick-figure comedy adventure-RPG full of mobsters, monsters, and mysteries.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.6%, CRPG 22.6%, Investigation 13.9%, Comedy 10.6%, Character Customization 9.1%

Nightmare Tale is an interactive horror novel with dark secrets and intricate puzzles. Take control of the fate of the main character named Tom, who inherited an old hotel. You will have to keep your sanity while discovering the horrifying secrets of the hotel.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 33.4%, Nonlinear 20.2%, Text-Based 11.8%, Horror 10.9%, Psychological Horror 9.2%

Undesirable Me is a psychological horror game in the genre of visual novel and adventure game. Overcome your inner demon: solve challenges, make tough decisions and face the consequences of your choices. Who will win this inner confrontation and take possession of the body? It depends on you.

Why similar: Psychedelic 27.1%, Nonlinear 16.1%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Horror 11%, Choices Matter 10.5%

The Darkest Emptiness will fill the lungs with leaden weight.

Why similar: Text-Based 18.5%, Psychological Horror 18%, Psychological 16.2%, Psychedelic 16%, Horror 10.3%

Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!

Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.7%, Psychological 18%, Psychedelic 17%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%

Revolution is not an easy task. It takes a lot of blood sweat and tears. What price are you willing to pay to stop it? Find your missing sister in the chaos of the uprising. Unravel the occult conspiracies. Lead the masses from the shadows. Every choice you make changes the course of history.

Why similar: CRPG 25.5%, Politics 23% ★, Alternate History 17.5%, RPG 11.9%, Investigation 9.8%

Help out a highschool girl as she explores the wonders of social media for the first time, as well as the dangers.

Why similar: Text-Based 19%, Psychological 18%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Psychedelic 13.6%, Philosophical 13.1%

The Derailed: Devour the Harvest - a standalone story set in the world of The Derailed. While investigating a mass disappearance, you find yourself at an abandoned factory. Answers lie within - but they come at a high price. Are you ready?

Why similar: Alternate History 25.7%, Lovecraftian 20.2%, Thriller 16.1%, Psychological Horror 15%, Horror 12.3%

A mining station in the Pacific abyss is no longer responding. As an investigator of the occult, unravel the mysteries of the deep. Test your wits and sanity in this lovecraftian thriller.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 34.6%, Investigation 13.4%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Thriller 11.9%, Story Rich 8.6%

Designed by some of the team behind the groundbreaking Disco Elysium, Hopetown is a narrative-first RPG with resonant storytelling and seismic conversations. Things will change under your nose and under your heel. Words will be your weapons, and you'll make your own truth.

Why similar: CRPG 20.3%, Philosophical 16%, Psychological 13.9%, Alternate History 13.7%, Investigation 13.5%

Explore the randomly segmented structures of your nightmares in this roguelike psychological horror game. Be strategic and efficient while completing randomized objectives with very limited oxygen, all while being hunted by whatever is down there with you. Many mysteries await your presence.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.2%, Nonlinear 17.4%, Thriller 13%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Psychological 11.9%

Caught in a strange series of events, you find yourself stuck in a job you never expected. What started as a simple way to earn money for a gift soon spirals into something much darker. As you navigate your new reality, the boundaries between what’s real and what’s not become harder to distinguish.

Why similar: Psychedelic 24.1%, Thriller 23.2%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Psychological 15.1%, Horror 11.5%

A mysterious story about the consequences of loneliness and unfulfilled dreams. Help artificial intelligence in the form of a little girl and avoid facing a ruthless monster.

Why similar: Psychedelic 21.3%, Psychological 16.4%, Nonlinear 15.5%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Horror 10.8%

It's a winter night. You are coming home by train. You have to change trains at a small train station in the middle of the forest.It's not the first time you've traveled this route. But now you feel like something is different.As if something was watching you.

Why similar: Psychedelic 22.2%, Philosophical 20.6%, Lovecraftian 20.2%, Text-Based 14.9%, Psychological Horror 11.4%

Set out on an adventure that challenges all the codes of the RPG genre, toying with its boundaries to create something unlike anything you've ever seen. In a world full of magic and adventure, a young boy starts his apprenticeship to become a knight... And it will change his life... and yours.

Why similar: Philosophical 20%, Nonlinear 18.3%, Psychedelic 15.7%, Psychological 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.3%

Certain things are better left alone, they don't willingly submit to the games of man, but develop a grudge, that sleeps under the soil for decades— An interactive visual novel with psychological and lovecraftian undertones.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 34.2%, Philosophical 26.6%, Psychological 21.2%, Psychological Horror 10%, Choices Matter 5.6%

In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.

Why similar: Psychological 21.9%, Text-Based 21.4%, Psychedelic 16.3%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Horror 11%

Dread whispers echo across the Information Superhighway. Y2K is coming, heralding the rise of the Old Ones. With your meatspace mind unraveling, time is running out -- barter with gods, embrace the deathless aeons, or go offline permanently in this modempunk horror story.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.1%, Alternate History 19.3%, Text-Based 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Psychedelic 8.7%

Something goes wrong during your subway journey home, leaving you in quiet darkness. Can you find your way back to reality? And are you sure you're alone? An atmospheric horror game, that will get you consumed…

Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.7%, Philosophical 20.6%, Psychedelic 13.8%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Choices Matter 10%

Jeb, going through a difficult time, decides to return to his hometown. Wanting to hide from dark thoughts among friends and family, he starts having nightmares that haunt him not only in sleep but also while awake. Find out what is the source of Jeb's nightmares.

Why similar: Thriller 22.5%, Psychological 21%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Horror 13.5%, Investigation 11.6%

One-Eyed Likho is a grim first-person horror adventure set in a world inspired by a dark, Slavic fairy tale. Explore an unsettling and twisted land set in 19th-century Russia in your endeavor to escape your own evil fate.

Why similar: Philosophical 20.1%, Psychedelic 19.7%, Psychological 18.1%, Thriller 15.2%, Psychological Horror 8.7%